lizzie, 17, london. im not really active on fictionpress any more, but feel free to check out some of the stories on here or on my other accounts. if there's a particular story you'd like to see updated, message me and i'll see what i can do! ily xx

Amelia, an innocent girl, is trapped in a sick and twisted game devised by Charlotte, a sadistic teenage killer. Amelia is not the only one forced to play Charlotte's game though, imprisoned in Charlotte's "funhouse", she meet's several other victims.

After their daughter's failed attempt at suicide, Alice Moore's family packs her up and ships her off to live with her Aunt Amelia, who owns a lighthouse on Blackwood Beach. Can Alice learn to escape her monsters? Does she even want to?

there was a time when it was bad luck to have a woman on board a ship. back then, if one was found, the sailors simply tied her legs together and flung her overboard. this, as any sensible person will tell you, is a mistake. why do mermaids like to drown sailors, anyway?

three not-so-innocent children are facing a dreadful peril, and they haven't even had breakfast. with the help of a vegetarian vampire, an overweight siamese cat and unusually stylish arch-villain miranda goth, the mismatched group sets off to fetch back their grandmother and save the planet from her evil schemes. but will they make it in time?

that day was the day the time machines landed, when the dead rose and the cities turned to crystal and the killer bees decimated the world. it was the day the buildings fell, and the humans dreamed of long-gone summers, of scorched skies and scorched lips, of hand-sewn flags and sacrificial patriots.

there's this old guy in the park who says he used to see mermaids. every day he sits on a weathered wooden bench, staring out over the lake and smoking cigarettes he rolls himself, wearing some crusty old suit and a pair of leather shoes, like a man who went to meet his girlfriend at a party and turned up seventy years too late.

Nothing interesting has ever really happened to Amy Barlow. That is, until she and her ex-boyfriend are both killed in a freak accident and wind up in Hell. Their punishment is cruel, unusual and rather amusing - not only are they forced to endure their own company, they must also rely on each other to stay alive. Eternal damnation has never seemed so twisted.

the real story is not poetic. we did not live in a cardboard box, did not tame tigers and marry princes, did not travel the world and the seven seas. we walked past the chinese takeaway and back, bought two ice-creams and were caught.

once, the two of them were inseparable: the flamboyant, self-absorbed diva and the nihilistic music geek, both gifted outcasts, both nurturing dreams of fame and fortune. now they're poised on the brink of stardom, and there's only one problem - they can't stand each other.

when albert the latvian gorgonzola is kidnapped under suspicious circumstances and sold at a lancre blue festival, his friend, the heroic little cheese, must embark upon a daring rescue mission. features fur hats, powdered ingenuity and motorbikes.

concerning the lives of four very different teenagers, brought together by the problems they share. the anorexic; the schizophrenic; the depressive; the drug addict. they've all had a pretty rough time of it, but at the cherry blossom clinic they must try and find themselves - and a life.

when tash and her mother move into an abandoned mansion after her father's death, it's not long before tash begins to realise something is very wrong with the house. someone else is already living there, and they want her gone.

i was born in the time of blood, when the white man took our country and the hearts of our people were crushed in their breasts. we ran barefoot into battle, and wore bear claws to strike our enemies. then myma came, and nothing was the same any more.

the world's just about to end, and the only people standing in its way are a very incompetent demon, a very unlucky angel, a little girl named molly, and a teenage computer hacker wondering how he's going to keep all this from his mother.

i am that girl, the girl who's so lost in her strange, mysterious, magical world of dragons and silver armour and dancing princesses in worn-out shoes, who's so far into her own strange storyland, that the words themselves are taking over.

she ran further, into the dark wood and along the twisting path, blood dripping from her fingertips. she danced with witches and kissed monsters. she made friends with the dark creatures that lurked in between the trees. and when her parents tried to make her leave and come back home, she grabbed hold of her new friends and ran away further, because she was afraid to be alone.

when an ordinary office worker discovers two strange growths forming on his shoulder blades, he has no idea that it is only the beginning of a disturbing metamorphosis that will change his life irrevocably.

the dreamer can create or destroy planets at the drop of a hat. the universe is his playground. trapped in a strange, surreal world of dreams and illusions, cora realises only he has the power to help her. but is he all that he appears to be?

imogen suffers from "ashley syndrome" - a rare genetic condition that traps her permanently in the body and mindset of a six-year-old. oblivious to the changes all around her, imogen stays locked in a child's world as her once-perfect family falls apart.

"dear video diary," begins the girl - and with those innocuous words, katrina webb finds herself plunged into a real-life horror story where the lines between dream and reality are unsettlingly blurred.